[Klug-general] University Of Kent (Canterbury)

[Peter Childs]

On 2 February 2010 19:05, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:09:59 +0000
> Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com> uttered these words:
>
>> It is terrible that people are forced to use/submit work in .doc
>> format and not even be given the option to use .odt. It's not like it
>> costs anything for OpenOffice or the Sun plugins for OpenOffice
>> formats in MS Office.
>
> The reason given is that all work has to be submitted in written format
> and also electronic format, so that it can be checked for plagiarism.
> The software runs on Windows and can check only on .doc and .docx files.
>
> If it is a reason that holds water, why don't they give this as a
> project to the Computing Laboratory?  Or offer a research grant?
>
> Personally, I think its got more to do with the fact that the
> University spends thousands of pounds in licensing fees for proprietary
> software and they have to justify that expenditure......
>
>> We currently don't have a meeting place scheduled for May which you
>> are happy to host if you want? That would give enough time for talks
>> to be planned and it advertised around the Uni.
>>
>> Colin
>
> Well, that confirms it!  I don't think its a problem for most, but I'll
> email the group and see if we can organise it for May.  Advertising it
> will be no problem, but I'll contact Spode and see if we can get an
> Open Lecture sorted for May.  If not, one of the lecture theatres
> sounds good!
>
> --
> Graham Todd
>

Hmm Right in the middle of Exam season, thats going to work well.....

If there is anything I can help with let us know, as an X-UKCer I can
remember all the politics that went on when the NT network was
born.....

Peter.